26 Sep
2020
26 Sep
'20
6:55 a.m.
Am Dienstag, 22. September 2020 schrieb Uwe Brauer via tde-users:
Hi
On a old machine (thinkpad X200s) I installed Ubuntu 16.04 (64bit) as
in the machine (Thinkpad X1) I am using for writing this message.
While I installed trinity on the X1
via
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb
xenial deps-r14 main-r14 deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb xenial
deps-r14 main-r14
For the old X200s machine I chose
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.0.x
xenial main deb
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-builddeps-r1
4.0.x xenial main deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.0.x
xenial main deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-builddeps-r1
4.0.x xenial main
Be it as it may, everything was fine on the X200s till I run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
Did you get any error message? Or error code (return code), i.e. can you
say wether that command failed or succeeded?
Now when I try to reboot the machine never shows a
login but is in
the infinite loop.
Are you able to switch to console (Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6]) and log in?
Any idea what I could do (other than reinstalling
the whole beast)
I don't know how Ubuntu handles that stuff, but on Debian you find:
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
Check the contents of that file. I've had this file changed to another
installed display manager a couple of times during upgrade of
tdm-trinity.
If you can't log in at all, you can try with a rescue or live system
from USB or such. Or start with option init=/bin/bash on linux command
line to have at least a shell.
HTH
Kind regards,
Stefan